Legal aid fees

Please note: Current and previous fee rates are provided - check the fee label to see the applicable period.

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Advice & Assistance: work done or outlays incurred

ABWOR: work done or outlays incurred

Advice & Assistance: Police station advice - work done or outlays incurred

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Criminal Advice and Assistance accounts guidance

Advice & Assistance: Police station advice - terrorism offences - work done or outlays incurred

ABWOR: Investigative liberation & application for questioning by prosecutor: where legal assistance is granted or made available

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Criminal Advice and Assistance accounts guidance

ABWOR: In relation to application for & extension of warrant of further detention: where legal assistance granted/made available

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Criminal Advice and Assistance accounts guidance

ABWOR: Fees allowable to solicitors for proceedings under Schedule 6 of the National Security Act 2023

Advice & Assistance: Fees allowable to solicitors in relation to Section 27 and Schedule 6 of the National Security Act 2023

Criminal legal aid – ID parades and Court Duty: work done or outlays incurred

Criminal legal aid - Solemn proceedings and summary detailed fees - work done or outlays incurred:

Criminal legal aid: Summary Criminal & ABWOR fixed payment (Schedule 1)

- where a plea of not guilty was tendered and case proceeds to trial in the sheriff court and exceeds 30 minutes or for proceedings in the JP court

Criminal: Summary Criminal & ABWOR fixed payment (Schedule 1A) where legal aid granted

- where a plea of not guilty was tendered in the sheriff court and the case does not proceed to trial beyond 30 minutes

Criminal: Summary Criminal & ABWOR fixed payment (Schedule 1B) where criminal legal aid granted

- where a plea of guilty is tendered or the case is continued without plea

Criminal: Summary Criminal & ABWOR fixed payment - Drug court cases where criminal legal aid granted

Contempt of Court Proceedings: work done or outlays incurred

Civil legal aid - detailed fees

Simple procedure and First-tier Tribunal cases for work done or outlays incurred

Civil legal aid for work done or outlays incurred

Civil legal aid - Sheriff Court block fees for work done or outlays incurred

Children's legal aid for work done or outlays incurred

Counsel fees - Supreme Court

Counsel fees - Civil Legal aid

Proceedings in the Court of Session, Sheriff Appeal Court, Sheriff Court, First Tier Tribunal & Upper Tier Tribunal for Scotland


View fee tables prior to 22 March 2021 in regulations section